This isn't a riddle like the ones Oyaji sometimes give us--it's based more on reality. The following is a kanji, handwritten by a modern, native Japanese person. They had no idea I was going to do this and were just writing normally. Let's see who will be the first one to figure out what kanji it is. (I do know the answer, so I can give hints)

(I don't have much practice reading quick handwritten Japanese, but I do have practice reading impossibly small kanji on handheld video games -- sometimes they're almost literally just blobs or solid blocks, and the only way to tell what they are is from context. Here's a good example:http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.p ... 630.0.html)

Actually, the bottom part of the right half of 様 is different from 水, because 水 is four strokes, whereas that part of 様 is five (the left part is divided into two strokes, the second of which is written bottom-to-top). But yeah, it still certainly doesn't look like that.